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Originally Posted by August
You can't rely on books to give you common sense Skybird.
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Agreed. That's why I don't do that, but demand empirical checks. And that is what all this is about.
And here is now one wise sentence for you, as a direct reply to yours: you cannot gain credibility and respect for your beliefs by just insisting that you believe so and so. Believing is not knowing.
Empirical experience is knowledge.
And the empirical database is such that your beliefs already were crushed and shown absurd the very moment you entered in this debate. Statistics - describe bigger populations. Your uncles and my grandfathers - are just individual biographies.
One does not judge the state of dentition of all people in a nation's population, by looking at the teeth in one's own family. And when gathering data of a representative sample, one does not take people's self-description of what they think about their teeth, but one does it in a standardized format: one has a dentist checking out their set of teeth according to specified parameters.
One does not leave it to beliefs, hopes, intuition and having a certain feeling in the stomach.